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An educational program to improve the management of HIV patients was introduced in the department of infectious diseases of Ibn Rochd hospital, Casablanca, Morocco in January 2000. The project, funded by the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation, began by training ward physicians as well as volunteers from the ALLOCS (Association de lutte contre le sida) in pedagogy and patient education techniques (four-day course). Other sessions reviewed HIV management and treatment. Treatment training sessions were...
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The Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program (SSA CP) shows how the principles of institutional learning and change (ILAC) can be applied. This Brief outlines the basic components of the SSA CP and highlights various ILAC features of the Program. These include an innovation systems orientation; an approach to 'thinking globally and acting locally'; the location of research within a broader context of policy, market and institutional change; and an emphasis on collabora- tion and learning among...
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Die Handves van Menseregte : implikasies vir Suid-Afrikaanse skole na tien jaar van demokrasie Regsverslae voor 1993 dui daarop dat skoolbevoegdhede, de jure , nie onbeperk was nie. Skole wat in gebreke gebly het om te voldoen aan die neergelegde prosedures het hulself dikwels midde in regsgedinge en hofuitsprake bevind en uitsprake is dikwels teen sulke skole gelewer. Die toepassing van die Handves van Menseregte, met 'n oorgang vanaf parlementere soewereiniteit na konstitusionele...
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AbstractPurpose. The purpose of this manuscript is to document the experiences of two undergraduate medical students at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who registered for a 4-week special study module titled “Images of Disability”, as part of the medical training programme. The objective of the module was to foster the development of positive attitudes toward persons with physical disability through role-playing.Method. The special study module required that the students assumed...
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In this paper, we put forward an alternative approach to combine the travel times from regional events with local earthquakes (including explosions) to reconstruct the deep velocity structure, but still on a local crustal scale. A synthetic example is first used to explain the multi-step seismic tomographic procedure before progressing to recover the 3D velocity structure beneath Rabaul volcano, Papua New Guinea, down to a depth 20 km. The main velocity structures at shallow depth range are...
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This report examines World Bank financing for the Education Sector HIV/AIDS Response in Sub-Saharan Africa, up to mid-2004. The review was undertaken in response to a consultation with African countries, which identified a need for information on how the Bank education sector was responding to the epidemic through its sectoral assistance programs, and through its participation in the Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP). Documents and data were reviewed, and key informants interviewed. There...
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Commentators claim that a shortage of skills in South Africa is constraining output and that a rise in skill supply would benefit less skilled occupations. This assumes or implies skilled and unskilled labour are complements. Hicks Elasticities of Complementarity and elasticities of factor price are estimated between capital and five occupations. The results show that skilled/artisanal and unskilled labour are complements while semi-skilled and unskilled labour are substitutes. These results...
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This paper modeled the proximate determinants of the scores on 60 items from Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI) and of school participation of approximately 1,000 children who had lost their mothers due to AIDS and from other causes using the data from a survey in Ethiopia. The scores on MMPI items reflecting emotional and social adjustment, and school participation before and after maternal deaths were modeled in a multi-disciplinary framework incorporating the time...
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Human fascioliasis is becoming a serious public health problem with a number of endemic areas identified in different countries. The viability of humans as definitive hosts has been experimentally demonstrated, and there is now a need to control the human infection along with the veterinary infection. In 1998, following reports on high prevalence among children in the Nile Delta, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population launched the first public health, school-based intervention to...
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This study explores secondary school students in the Khartoum Province, Sudan, with respect to frequency and quality of use and the socio-demographic distribution of oral health knowledge and behaviour.Six secondary schools were selected at random and 10% of the students enrolled in each class (3 grades) were randomly selected to participate. A total of 400 students (207 boys) (mean age 15.3 years) were selected, of which 396 completed questionnaires at school.44.3% boys and 42.5% girls...
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This paper explores how African learners and educators work with difference and diversity in schooling populations. Using a Ghanaian case study the paper offers lessons on/about how local discourses relating to ‘inclusivity and nation building’, ‘minority’ and ‘difference’ can inform debates about educational change and guide broad policy initiatives in pluralistic settings. While difference is affirmed, in some circles it can be said Ghanaian educators have not necessarily been responsive....
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A role of the heart in the pathophysiology of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria has recently been suggested. The objective of the present study was to substantiate this finding in a large group of African children and to correlate results with metabolic conditions in these children. Furthermore, the impact of a potential cardiac impairment on outcome in severe cases was assessed. Results may have important implications on the currently ongoing debate on fluid management in severe malaria...